Cubism
1914
            
                Oil on canvas. 
              72 x 60 cm
              Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
              
                Inv. no.  
              776
 (1984.19
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                    Room 43
                  
                  
                    
                    
                      
                        
      
    
      
        
      
    
        
      
    
        
  
                      
                    
                  
                              
            
        Level 1
      
      
        Permanent Collection
      
    Nadeshda Udaltsova first came into contact with the Cubist movement while training under Henri Le Fauconnier and Jean Metzinger in Paris.When she took part in the Jack of Diamonds exhibition in Moscow that brought together the advocates of a return to Cézanne and the followers of Cubist painting in 1914, it was already clear that Cubism had become a fundamental language for her. Even when she later joined the Supremus group and followed the guidelines of Suprematism, her style was closer to Cubism than to Suprematism strictly speaking. 
Programmatically entitled Cubism, the painting in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection is one of her characteristic depictions of the Cubist urban landscape. As in the Cubist visions of streets painted by fellow Russian Olga Rozanova, Udaltsova provides a fragmented glimpse of the city in which rays and lines of force coexist alongside inscriptions borrowed from the analytical Cubism of Picasso and Braque.
Paloma Alarcó
                  Programmatically entitled Cubism, the painting in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection is one of her characteristic depictions of the Cubist urban landscape. As in the Cubist visions of streets painted by fellow Russian Olga Rozanova, Udaltsova provides a fragmented glimpse of the city in which rays and lines of force coexist alongside inscriptions borrowed from the analytical Cubism of Picasso and Braque.
Paloma Alarcó
              
                      
                      
                      
                      
        
      
        
      
        
      
        
      